{"id":581,"date":"2011-02-11T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=581"},"modified":"2011-02-11T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:00:26","slug":"wall-street-journal-february-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal (February 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheating is not \u201ca new phenomenon in Japan&#8217;s national sport,\u201d but the current scandal rocking the sumo world is different because \u201chard evidence in this case is forcing Japanese to confront the reality and seriousness of the problem.\u201d The reality is the incentive structure needs to be changed. One possible solution is pay sumo wrestlers with prize purses, \u201clike boxers, far more if they win than lose, rather the current system of giving them monthly salaries plus relatively small incentive payments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheating is not \u201ca new phenomenon in Japan&#8217;s national sport,\u201d but the current scandal rocking the sumo world is different because \u201chard evidence in this case is forcing Japanese to confront the reality and seriousness of the problem.\u201d The reality is the incentive structure needs to be changed. One possible solution is pay sumo wrestlers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,483,164,490],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-cheating","tag-pay","tag-scandal","tag-sumo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}